Friday Truth in Deep Love🤗❤️🙏
“It is a challenge when you surrender your control to Me, but not a loss to you. You will never be cheated from My love. Your surrendering will only be fruitful and rewarding. The fervor of My love will inspire you to give to Me all the more; to give until there is no more to give and, even then, I shall draw from you! In this grace of prayer, you will discover what truly nourishes your soul. The search becomes the goal, and the longing for My love is sufficient in itself to sustain you. The fruits will become self-evident. The desert flowers bloom when your will no longer exerts energy to control or distract you from attentiveness to My Will.”(From Jesus to Gianna below)
It’s hard to recognize how much strength lies in our humility without deeply contemplating the life, passion, death, and resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ. He who submitted Himself, died for us in complete surrender, lives today, 2000 years later through millions of followers who work to keep love alive in His Kingdom and in our hearts that others might live through our prayers and deeds.
I struggle with this kind of submission every day, because “the world” programs us for pride. We even have celebrations of this deadly sin as we attempt to rise from the ashes of oppression, yet that’s exactly the opposite of what Jesus calls us to do.
Why do we think we’re better than Jesus? That we should exercise control over the will of others when He so humbly and willingly gave everything He had so that we could live to serve in love? When we should be keeping ourselves “small,” or “little,” as we look every soul we meet in their eyes and serve them in His Holy Name through the love that He has bestowed upon us that others might also have the desire to live through, with, and in Him? To fully allow Him into the depths of our souls that we no longer care what others think about us, but that they see Him through us, as we die unto ourselves that He might receive all glory.
We all have “bullies” in our lives, but I’ve found that the less we “resist,” the more benign they become, as fighting ego with ego is like trying to fight bullying with more bullying, or racism with more racism, or “pride” with an even greater sense of pride.
There isn’t an hour that goes by that I don’t struggle with this myself in a pretty big way, but every time I get these “waves of pride,” I have to remember, and as my dear and humble Carmelite friend said the other day, to “practice and practice until I get it right.” Not that I’ll ever get it “right,” but the more I keep humility in practice, the closer I will be inclined to come to Him due to my own “fortitude in submission.” And “submission,” ironically does take fortitude, because society simply doesn’t wire us for submission. It programs us to “win” in a temporal sense, but winning in the temporal sense is usually counter to winning in a spiritual sense, which means full submission, and rendering all Glory to God.
I hope and pray that more of us find ways to open ourselves up fully in surrender to Him, for only then can we truly grow closer, and live out our earthly lives in a way that’s all in, and totally His. Love is all that matters, and love through humility is as pure as it gets.❤️🙏
(Reflection by Kenny Meek)
Message from Jesus to Gianna Talone Sullivan, I am Your Jesus of Mercy Vol IV
TOTAL SURRENDER
(7/25/92)
My dear one, as I move the graces of your prayer forward, you will notice one day in contemplation that you have progressed in this grace from “knowing” to “loving”. The prayer of My love moves from the mind to the heart. Your imagination will be reduced until you only have the memories to remember. At this point, give praise to Me and know you have been graced with progress in your journey through your commitment and devotion in contemplating Me.
It is a challenge when you surrender your control to Me, but not a loss to you. You will never be cheated from My love. Your surrendering will only be fruitful and rewarding.
The fervor of My love will inspire you to give to Me all the more; to give until there is no more to give and, even then, I shall draw from you! In this grace of prayer, you will discover what truly nourishes your soul. The search becomes the goal, and the longing for My love is sufficient in itself to sustain you. The fruits will become self-evident. The desert flowers bloom when your will no longer exerts energy to control or distract you from attentiveness to My Will.
The battle of the mind will no longer become an interest to you. Hence the desert blooms, because the source of nourishment is from the heavens, which showers and enriches the soil to produce a fruitful season and the best yield of the harvest!
Blessed is he that endures and perseveres until the end.
The struggle of failure and success no longer preoccupies your journey of progression. You are now ready to open up like a flower to receive My merciful love and the compassion of healing graces. Your commitment to Me of your heart in prayer will gather the truth and will surface the self-deception of the heart!
It is the way of My sacredness in fidelity and truth. When you surrender to Me totally, you will be trusting in My love totally because total surrender involves trusting in My love.
You would know of My love and trust in My love and, there-fore, surrender yourself to Me totally.
Only when you trust in Me totally, can you trust others and respect them in dignity in My love. I trusted in My Father because of Our Oneness. Trust in Me in our oneness! Do not be afraid. Know of My love and know you will NEVER be left alone. My Father was ALWAYS WITH ME, even as I suffered the abandonment of your life. Why, then, would I ever leave you alone? I would NOT! I am true to My fidelity to you and I am one with you. That is why I broke Myself for you, that you would never suffer without Me in your brokenness!!
Rest assured of My love. Do not lose sight of My love through the fallacies of the self-controlling desires of the will and mind. Surrender unto Love against all self-comprehension, and you will bear fruitful virtues of life. Peace. Ad Deum.